Year Last Seen:

1963

Comments:

This species is known from the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, USA, but is now Extinct, probably as a result of habitat destruction and introduced diseases. The last records date from 1961-1963, and a survey in 1979 failed to find the species.

Habitat:

This species was …

Year Last Seen:

1950

Comments:

This species was found in the eastern Canary Islands, but is now Extinct due to overharvesting of its invertebrate prey. It was last collected in 1913, and locally reported to be absent by the 1940s.

Habitat:

It inhabited the coastal zone where it foraged for …

Year Last Seen:

1945

Comments:

This species was known from Wake Island in the United States Minor Outlying Islands, but went Extinct in the mid-1940s, being last recorded in 1945 and never seen by an observer who took up residence in 1946. It is thought to have been hunted to …

Year Last Seen:

1944

Comments:

This species was found in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, USA, but is now Extinct. The last population, which had been introduced to Eastern Island, was exterminated by introduced rats in 1944.

Habitat:

It inhabited grass tussocks and thickets.

Causes:

It became extinct on Laysan Island …

Year Last Seen:

1940

Comments:

This species was known from Hawaii's Big Island, USA, but it has not been reported since 1940 and is now Extinct. Deforestation and introduced diseases are likely to have been responsible.

Habitat:

It inhabited mountain koa-ohia forest (500-2,000 m).

Causes:

Its extinction …

Year Last Seen:

1938

Comments:

This species was known from the island of Grand Cayman, but it has been driven to extinction by logging of its forest habitat. The last sight records date from 1938, and it was definitely Extinct by 1965.

Habitat:

Its habitat was dense "knife-edged coral-rock, swamp …

Year Last Seen:

1937

Comments:

This species is known from Hawaii's Big Island, USA, but it is now Extinct due to logging of its forest habitat. The last confirmed records date from 1892.

Habitat:

It inhabited ohia and loulu palm Pritchardia forest on both the windward (Hilo District and …

Year Last Seen:

1937

Comments:

This species may have survived until as late as 1937, but undoubtedly became Extinct soon after. It likely disappeared as a result of over-hunting and predation by invasive rats and cats.

Habitat:

This species was a small gallinule which probably had reduced flying capabilities (Hume …

Year Last Seen:

1936

Comments:

This species was formerly found in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, but it has not been recorded since 1936 and is now Extinct. The reasons for this are unknown, though it may have been due to habitat destruction.

Habitat:

It is likely to have inhabited the forested …

Year Last Seen:

1936

Comments:

This species was endemic to Lord Howe Island, Australia, but was driven Extinct by the depredations of introduced rats. It was last recorded in 1928, with none found on a survey in 1936.

Habitat:

It was a canopy-dwelling forest species (Hull 1909), feeding on small …